New Challenges.. New Mega Kit...

6 days and counting till we bring the boys to California where we are meeting my mother in law, who is taking the boys for 2 weeks while Nic has spring break. She is taking them to Disneyland, and I think I might go to, I have decided yet, but it would be great to finally go.. Then Gary and I are meeting a few of his friends, then driving back here to AZ where on Saturday my best friend comes into town (business trip) but I will finally see here, its been a year.. I am thrilled.. Well I need to get back to cleaning.. If Gary finds out I was on here instead of cleaning he will freak.. thankfully he doesn't read my blog.. lol

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New challenges are up at DSO. Swing by and check them out. Our Element Fairies are working hard on the prize kit that will be handed out on the first of April. For every challenge you complete, you get 1 part of the prize.
http://digital-scrapbooking.org/boards/index.php

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Get kissed by the luck of the Irish, with this massive St. Patrick's Day Kit! The March edition of the DSO Mega Kit is cram packed with rich greens to help celebrate the season of March. Don't be put off though, this kit ihas papers so versatile, you could use if for just about any occasion! Over 300 megs of green goodies, all created by the DSO staff!

http://digital-scrapbooking.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=405

ON SALE 32% off thru MARCH 11
(larger previews at the site!)

Kit contains:

70+ papers
3 alphas
13 tags
29 ribbons
4 ricrac
4 fibers
7 buttons
6 brads
67 misc elements

Wanna TRY before you buy?
Grab up this free sample!

playing catch up and a freebie

In my last post I mention this thing called Blog It or Lay It Out that we have over at the DSO forums. Well there is a new one posted everyday and I told myself I was going to do them all. So here I am playing catch up..

What was your favorite childhood past time? Did you do it alone of with someone?
My favorite past time was spent with my Uncle Don.. My mom didn't like him very much and didn't want him around me, but he would sneak over after I got out of school (before mom came home from work) and we would sit on my front porch and talk about everything. He told me our talks kept him going day by day.. But I guess they weren't enough after a while, he committed suicided when I was a freshman in high school. He was my best friend and my big brother (he was only 7 yrs older than me and hated the though of being an uncle, told everyone I was his baby sister) I am not made at him for what he did because I know that he is in my heart and will always be there to listen to my problems.

Describe your childhood bedroom...
hmm.. My bedroom was nothing much.. The first one I can barely remember except that it had bunk beds and I shared with my sister. After my grandma passed when I was 8 we moved into her house (dads childhood home) and I finally had my own room. It had white walls, teal border, white dresser and bed with teal drawers on both (bed and dresses) and a white entertainment center, with a TV, VCR, and RADIO. I had a 3 foot care bear till my mom throw it out (I am still made about) that was then replaced with a 3 foot tweety, my nephews father got me as a birthday present while he was dating my sister (which I think my mom through out or gave to my cousin), umm I had a phone, I won't describe, I went through 10 different ones.. the main thing I do remember was.. IT WAS A MESS!!! No one understood that even though you couldn't see the floor, in my own weird way it was organized, I knew where every little thing was.. lol

Where did your dad go to work everyday when you were a kid, and what did he do?
From the time I was a baby till I was about 8 (or maybe 10) my dad was a truck driver, whether it was in state or cross country, I still remember riding in the trucks with him, I would sit on the steps on the day he came up from cross country trips and wait for my ride, we would take the truck to the park n ride (city wanted them parked there now on side streets) and then walk back home together. After that I remember he went to work for a heating and air conditioning company till he moved to Alaska, when I was 16.

What did your mom do when you were a kid, was she a SAHM or did she work?
As a baby she was a SAHM, but then went to work at Pathmark (grocery store), she also worked at Dunkin Donuts for a few years (while still at Pathmark) to this day she is still at Pathmark.

Did you have a special hideaway or playhouse as a child? What did it look like?
My friends and I had the same hideaway.. Across the street (behind my friends house) were woods, it had a nice clearing (where the boys went dirt biking) but there were a lot of other areas that were covered. We would all go hide out in there when ever we had a problem, it was nice, no one but the few friends knew where to find us, so it gave us the time to think and calm down.

Recall some of the MOST important lessons you have learned in life.
hmm.. I think the most important one was to stop living in the past.. A wise man once said
"Stop looking at the past, it only causes you hurt, look at the future and ways to make it better for you"
Share a special poem or writing passage that has special meaning in your life...
I am going to have to go with the same poem Bunny chose..
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
--Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


Do you remember one of the first meals you cooked after you were married? Has you cooking changed since then?
Umm.. those boxed meals.. but since then cooking as evolved to actually cooking.. lol.. tonight we are having a steak pot pie made by ME (with the help of a recipe of course)

Who taught you to drive, and what was your first car like?
umm.. when I get my license we will come back to this one lol

What was your favorite pet growing up? Why was it your favorite?
My favorite pet.. hmm I had 3..
1. Dog - Oreo Cookie Ice Cream (named by my dad, he likes names like that).. We called her Oreo for short, but she did look like the ice cream. She was great to play with, we kept her at my grandmothers, and she was always happy to see me. I came went to my grandmothers one day and she wasn't there, she had puppies and we couldn't keep her anymore, my dad didn't want to separate her and the puppies, so they found a farm that would take them all.. Now I know most times when parents say the animal went to the farm it means they died, but I know she didn't, I was taken to the farm to see her a few times, and she was happy and healthy..
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2. Cat - My mom got this cute cat from a guy she works with.. OMG.. I feel in love the second I laid my eyes on him.. He was different, unique.. He was all grey, would eat anything you gave him, he favorite was sneaking potato chips.. His name was Tailless.. Can you guess why?? The poor little guy was born without a tail, but he was just soo cute..
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3. Bird - Ignats - Iggy for short.. She was a Conjure my dad bought for me and my mom, she was supposed to be my moms birthday present, but mom and me got into a car accident on that day, so my dad gave it to both of us.. She wasn't supposed to talk, but my gawd, that little thing had a mouth on her.. She learned to repeat everything that was said around the house.. which wasn't always a good thing.

ok.. I think I will stop for now.. There are a lot more to catch up that I will get to tomorrow..

Here is your freebie

I was fiddling around around with shape and dodge and burn tools and this was the outcome.. It was supposed to be out for valentines day (hence the heart petals)
download here
As always.. Freebies are up for 1 week, so this will come down on Feb 26.
Please comment if you download :)

All in a name..

Ok.. So over at Digital-Scrapbooking.org we started this thread called "Blog it or Lay it out"
Everyday there is a new thread with a theme / question.. Post an answer on your blog or post a layout in our gallery.. But link back to the thread so we can learn a little about you..

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Todays question is :
Did you have a nick name growing up? How did you get it?

Besides the obvious one (Princess - from daddy), there were plenty of names and I can't remember why I was given them all, but these 2 are my fondest.
1. Small Fry.. My dads cousin Tony would call me this when ever he saw me.. the last time I saw him I was 18 and he still called me that.. I don't think he will ever realize that I have grown up, but thats one of the things I love about him..

2. Boo (which I still use) I don't remember how it started but my uncle (who was more like a big brother (only 7yrs older than me)) started calling me that, and after his suicide when I was 15, I swore no one would ever call me that again, but then as time passed I realized that it was a memory that I didn't want to lose, so now 10 yrs later I let people call me that again and every time I hear or read it I smile and think of him..

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Now that I have done mine its your turn to post yours (thats if you want to, I can't force you.. lol) Post a link in my comments or better yet, come to the gallery and post a link in the thread..

Creative Team Call and Thank You

More Info:
http://digital-scrapbooking.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=50

Thank You for all the wonderful comments left from the Pastel Freebie.. I will hopefully have it completed by the end of the month.

Be on the look out for a new freebie in another day or 2..

Soo Sorry

It was brought to my attention that the brad was not in the zip file yesterday. I don't know what happened, but I have triple checked this time and rezipped up the file for you all..

Use this link to DL the new file with papers and BRAD
Link Removed.. thank you for downloading :)

For those who said they want to see me make a kit.. I am going to do that, it will be a girl themed kit.
If you have any ideas or suggestions on what to put in please leave me a comment and I will see what I can do :)

Update, SALE, and Freebie

Yes I am actually updating, and its a real update.. lol

Things have been hectic, but now that the holidays are over they are slowing down..
We had a GREAT Christmas, not much for presents, but the boys got enough to make them happy.. They got Star Wars Transformers (Santa), Star Wars Light Sabers from Grandma, Star Wars Figures from Nana.. Do you see a pattern here, they are only 3 and 6 yrs old and totally obsessed with Star Wars.. Daddy and Mommy got Nic a Rescue Heroes Command Center, and JJ the Shake and Go race Track and a Lighting McQueen car to go on it with his Mater.. They also got Ice Age and Cars DVD's (Popeye and Porky Pig movies too).
Gary and the boys got me an I POD Shuffle (mini), Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and the new Garth Brooks DVD Tin.
Gary didn't want me to buy anything, so I told him to take $50 dollars and get him something he wanted, so along with the money from my mom, his mom, and my grandpa, he has over $200 to spend..
We went to Gary's friends for the day, so that was nice, the boys played with there little girl, and we all just sat around and talked, played games and of course picked on the guys.. lol
Well enough about my life.. lol..

Now onto the FREEBIE
It will be available Jan 6, 2007
2 papers and 1 brad

Link Removed. Thank You for downloading :)

I am thinking about making a full kit with these colors.. What do you all think?
any input will be greatly appreciated..

Please comment, criticism is always welcome

Added New Layouts

I added 2 new layouts to my slide..

Will have a freebie and full update tomorrow, Gary is whining to have me get off so he can play World Of Warcraft.. lol

Freebies and Sales...

Wow.. The past 2 weeks have been crazy.. I am glad they are
starting to slow down finally.



Freebies for you, 2 handmade (in Paint Shop Pro) snowflakes.

Available until Nov 22 (Wednesday)

Comments always appreciated

LINK REMOVED.
Thank you for those who downloaded and left comments!

Upcoming Chats

Like to read??
Why not join the new Book Club, we are having our first chat on Friday (tomorrowow) at 8pm CST
To see what time near you try this link here
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Link to chat room here
http://somebunny.net/scraps/chat/flashchat.php

Link Templates??
Join me on Saturday Nov. 11th at 9pm EST for Let's Talk Templates. Where we can discuss templates and I will give you a free one to work with. (chat link coming soon)

So...

How was everyones Halloween?

Ours was great. We took the boys to a neighborhood over by where my oldest (5yrs) goes to school at. We were only out for about an hour and a half because Nic started saying he didn't feel good. In that small amount of time though we managed to come home with 9 pounds of candy.. Yes I did put it all in one bag and weigh it on my bathroom scale.. LOL

Well since the stores are starting to show signs of it, I guess I should too.. Here is a new freebie for you all.. Please let me a comment about it, I spent over 6 hours working on him (not all at one time though) so I would really like to know what you all think.

Thank You for downloading this freebie.
The link has now been removed.

Free Alpha

Wow. What a weekend!! As you know Friday was a good day, I started selling over at Some Bunnys Scraps! Saturday started out good, I woke up to find an email from Bunny saying 2 of my templates sold, of course I was happy!! I just wish my mood would have stayed that way, later that night and through Sunday led to some major fighting between me and the hubby.. So of course my mood was shot. Here we are on Monday morning at 5am and I can't sleep. I went to bed last night at 11:45pm, and woke up every hour before I decided at 3:50am to just get up, and here I sit.
The good news is I was able to get some scrapping done. A freebie for you and something for the store. So unless you want to me to continue to babble on about me and the hubby (which I don't think you do) here is your freebie
I need a favor for you all.. I am having a hard time coming up with colors that would be good.

Could you all post in my comment section what colors you would like to see this alpha in?

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This is my first Alpha Set.
26 Letters
Font Used - Mail Ray Stuff by Ray Larabie

Link has been removed..

Please leave me a comment if you download this. I would love to hear what you all think about my work.

Wanna show me what you used this alpha for?
Post it here : http://somebunny.net/scrap-gallery/thumbnails.php?album=66

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I will also have more colors up in the store as the week follows.
Here is the first color - Dark Cyan
You can find them here:
http://somebunny.net/scrapstore/index.php?manufacturers_id=4&main_page=index

Woo Hoo.. Happy Day (FREEBIE!!)

I am finally selling my designs over at Some Bunny Scraps!!

Can you tell I am happy?? Right now I just have templates going up, but I am hoping in the next few weeks I will have more for you all.

In honor of this special day I have decided that instead of selling the template I used for my "Lets Talk Templates Chat" last Monday at Some Bunnys Scraps, I would give it to the public for FREE, but you have to promise to check out my other templates at my store, and leave me a comment.

Here is a sample of what I did with the template
Link Removed, thank you to those who downloaded it.


If you use my template come on over to the gallery at Some Bunnys Scraps and post so I can see!!

http://somebunny.net/scrap-gallery/index.php

Stop by the forums at Some Bunnys Scraps too, there are plenty of Challenges to try out

http://somebunny.net/scrapboards/

First Kit

So I decided it was time to start working on my first kit.

Here are the papers. I am working on the elements.

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I would love some comments and or suggestions.

just click on the images for larger versions

Creative Teams

Well I made it on my first creative team!! YAY for me lol..

The designer is Monique Patry, you can find her kits at Digi Dreamers

Here is my first LO from her Girly Dreams Kit

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Girly Dreams can be found here

New Lay Outs

Just a few new layouts I have been working on..

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I did this one for a Quote Challenge I am hosting.
Feel free to check it out here and here

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Did this up for a chat/challenge at Scrapbook-Bytes
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More coming in a few days..

Charlee Smiles

I got these pictures of my baby sister from my step mom and I just feel in love with her smile and had to scrap them.

Carefrree Boys

My boys, Nicholas and Jakob about 2 1/2 years ago. My how they have grown. Nicholas started is going into his 4th week of Kindergarten on Monday :)

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Charlene Virginia

This is my first ever lay out. The beautiful little girl is my baby sister at one month old. She is now going on 6 months, wow how time flies.

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